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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Pier Paolo Pasolini (story)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 April 1968 (USA) more
Plot:
Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
A Quiet Masterpiece. more (14 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Franco Citti | ... | Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi | |
| Franca Pasut | ... | Stella | |
| Silvana Corsini | ... | Maddalena | |
| Paola Guidi | ... | Ascenza | |
| Adriana Asti | ... | Amore | |
| Luciano Conti | ... | Il Moicano | |
| Luciano Gonini | ... | Piede D'Oro | |
| Renato Capogna | ... | Renato | |
| Alfredo Leggi | ... | Papo Hirmedo | |
| Galeazzo Riccardi | ... | Cipolla | |
| Leonardo Muraglia | ... | Mammoletto | |
| Giuseppe Ristagno | ... | Peppe | |
| Roberto Giovannoni | ... | The German | |
| Mario Cipriani | ... | Balilla | |
| Roberto Scaringella | ... | Cartagine |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Accattone! (USA)
The Procurer (UK)
The Scrounger (USA) (informal English title)
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Runtime:
120 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Spain:13 | Italy:VM18 | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | Argentina:16 | UK:X (original rating)
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Trivia:
This was Bernardo Bertolucci's first work in movies. He was an assistant director. more
Quotes:
Amore:
You don't care about her. I do alright because I've got nobody.
Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi:
Can't you talk of anything else?
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985) more
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A decade and a half after the end of the second world war, Naples is still being rebuilt. Families subsist and live in little shacks whilst Attacone pimps a girl called Maddelena in order to make ends meet sitting outside the local café he talks with his friends. Pasolini's examination of postwar Neapolitan life is beautifully filmed and above all engages the viewer with an assortment of characters which one feels a great connection. There is never a sense that these people are being patronized or exploited and Pasolini encourages some warm performances from his group of actors. Touching, warm and funny at one point one of the boys in Accatone's company is so hungry that he bites at a carnation whilst the boys await the pasta they are cooking. Its a beautiful moment full of sad realism and its an image that lingers long after the film has ended.